Hackers

If you couldn’t get your Xbox or PlayStation online this Christmas, it wasn’t just you; Xbox Live and PlayStation Network were both down for the majority of Christmas Day, allegedly thanks to a group of malicious hackers making good on…

Lizard Squad made waves earlier this year when they took down Blizzard and PlayStation networks for a time in August. Then they tweeted a bomb threat that redirected a commercial airliner, upon which Sony Online Entertainment’s John Smedley was a…

A massive Sony Pictures hack that allowed attackers to steal an estimated 11 terabytes of data has been followed by the online release of a number of upcoming movies. Fury, Annie, and Mr. Turner are among the films thought to have been uploaded by…

Compromised servers attack over 500,000 PCs daily Perhaps it should be called the world wild web to more accurately reflect a landscape fraught with danger, at least if you’re taking an alarmist point of view. Sometimes it’s hard not to. To wit,…

Kickstarter CEO Yancey Strickler took to the company blog to inform users that it had been hacked and that some customer data has been accessed by hackers. Kickstarter was informed by law enforcement officials last week of the breach and…

Back during the busy holiday shopping season, Target was the victim of a hack that exposed more than 70 million credit card numbers and private data on its shoppers. The Justice Department has since said it’s investigating the issue, but…

The same malware that infiltrated Target’s systems and leaked credit and debit card information on more than 70 million shoppers is still out there. Worse, according to a new report that was released on Friday by security firm IntelCrawler, six…

In the last few weeks, services and games like League of Legends, Dota 2, Steam, and Twitch.tv have gone down for minutes or even hours as a result of denial of service attacks. What are attackers doing to bring these…

According to two reports from Polygon, Electronic Arts and Valve’s online marketplaces are experiencing connectivity problems, both apparently the result of DDoS attacks. Electronic Arts’ Origin servers are under attack by a hacker group called DERP, which also took responsibility…

Target’s been in our headlines a few times recently, but primarily for holiday deals it has been offering. Today, however, it’s in the news for a totally different reason, and one that’s a bit more concerning. The retail giant confirmed…